Rotary Club of Bowen Island

At the Rotary Club of Bowen Island we welcome all visitors. And we celebrate visiting Rotarians! You will find us in the fjord called Howe Sound. The trip here is a 20 minute voyage on a ferry from West Vancouver, British Columbia. This photo of Bowen Island was taken from St. Marks peak.

Rotary Run for Rwanda

On the morning of Bowfest on Bowen Island, The Rotary Club of Bowen Island operates the Run For Rwanda in support of Komera Canada. In September 2013 US$5000.00 was sent to the Komera Project in New York to fund ten girls for the a year of high school in rural Rwanda.

Street Numbers

Fire Chief, Ian Thompson, commented, “The RCMP, the Fire Department, and the Paramedics all need to be able to provide speedy response in an emergency. Our street address signs are often missing, hidden, or invisible at night.” Now the Rotary Club of Bowen Island is selling reflective number signs. Each sign is 6 x 24 inches with 3-inch numbers, and made of the same materials as street signs so they will not fade or wash out.

Outdoor Learning Classroom

The Outdoor Learning Centre was our first major project. The Club combined its funds, raised through Operation Red Nose, with funds raised by the parents and teachers of the Bowen Island Community School, to obtain a District Grant from Rotary District 5040 to construct this Learning Centre.

For prospective members

What Rotary can do for you

Improve your leadership skills

Give back to the community

Network with other business and community leaders

Participate in local and International service projects

Develop good friendships

If you are interested in joining The Rotary Club of Bowen Island, we’d love to talk to you. Please come to one of our Thursday night meetings and ask any of the leadership to tell you about The Rotary Club of Bowen Island. Your interest will be welcome, and there will be no pressure to join. There is lots for you to discover, both about the work and history of this club, and the accomplishment of the 33,000 clubs that make up Rotary International.

The foundation of Rotary is the concept of Service above self, and our Guiding Principles. <<Please click the link to read about our principles.

We, on Bowen Island, are proud of what our group has achieved in the short time since this club was founded. Our club is part of an assembly of 1.2 million Rotarians worldwide. It is amazing what we are accomplishing by working together. Even if you choose not to be a member, we’d love you to become familiar with this service organization.

Each year Bowen Rotary is pleased to accept the participation of volunteers from the community who make a valuable contribution to our projects. This includes the Run for Rwanda, and the days we are are allotted to sort returnables at the Bowen Island Recycling Depot. If this interested you, please contact us. It is not necessary to join to be a volunteer.

What is Rotary?

Rotary is an organization of business and professional leaders worldwide who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world.

Rotary is 1.2 million service-minded men and women belonging to nearly 32,000 Rotary clubs in virtually every nation in the world.

Rotarians meet for interesting and informative programs dealing with topics of local and global importance, fellowship and local service projects. Membership is by invitation and reﬂects a wide cross-section of community representation.

Rotarians plan and carry out a remarkable variety of humanitarian, educational and cultural exchange programs that touch people’s lives in their local and global communities.

Each year, The Rotary Foundation provides some US$60 million for international scholarships, cultural exchanges and humanitarian projects large and small that improve the quality of life for millions of people.